Fabian Walker

Fabian Walker has been an online editor in the DLR communications department since 2012. Until 2007, he studied audiovisual media at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne with a focus on documentary film directing. He then worked as a freelance writer for the online editorial team of the WDR and later travelled a lot for film projects around the world. In these travels, he researched the price differences for everyday products in various locations, and hoped there was a networked platform in which one could enter product prices for users worldwide. Therefore, together with friends, he founded the website Eardex , a kind of Wiki for prices in all cities, regions and countries of the world.

Youtube and Vimeo: with special focus on moving images on the video channels of DLR. As an online editor at DLR, he is now to provide the public an insight into the world of aerospace, aviation, energy and transport. He is also responsible for other social media channels of the German Aerospace Center: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Flickr and Vine.

The last adjustments have been made and the final functionality tests have been completed. Following the successful installation of MASCOT into the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft in Sagamihara, the final preparations have taken place at the Tanegashima launch complex in Japan. The attachment of the solar sails – carefully folded up above MASCOT for the launch – offers the last opportunity to see MASCOT.
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The MASCOT asteroid lander will be delivered to the Japanese space agency JAXA at the start of next year. It will be integrated into the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft and prepared for launch, scheduled for late 2014. There is still a long way to go, but there is little time!
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The 'small’ asteroid lander MASCOT will set off for asteroid 1999 JU3 on board the Japanese Hayabusa-2 mission at the end of 2014. Although from the outside it seems to be the size of a shoebox, the lander’s stature is deceiving! Its sophisticated and highly developed payload, and its powerful communication and computing system make MASCOT a high-tech, albeit very compact, autonomous spacecraft, perfectly equipped to cope with the arduous and long mission it faces.
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